Mastering Active Directory

DFSR crash due to dirty shutdown of the domain controller (event ID 2213)

This is one of the common DFSR errors. This happens when a domain controller crashes. This can be fixed using the existing command listed for the event 2213. It will resume replication in the volume.

wmic /namespace:\\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrVolumeConfig where volumeGuid="xxxxxxxx″ call ResumeReplication

In the preceding command, the ;volumeGuid value needs to be replaced with the relevant value from your environment.

If this doesn't solve the issue, SYSVOL replication will need to be recovered, which will be explained later in this section.